Operational Resilience Audit

Operational Resilience Audit Expert (ORAE)

Pre-requisites

The pre-requisites are:

• Attend and complete the ORA-5000 Operational Resilience Audit Expert course

• Pass the Qualifying ORAE examination

• Have at least three years of Operational Resilience/ business continuity/ crisis management/ IT disaster recovery/ BC-CM-DR-OR Audit professional experience and
• Be able to describe at least 8 OR related OR Body of Knowledge (OR BoK) which you have audited or implemeted.
  • Send in the SGD 150 ORAE Certification Application Processing Fees

Operational Resilience Body of Knowledge (OR BoK) 1 to 15
[P1] Plan Phase [Bok 1 to BoK 5]	[P2] Implement Phase [Bok 6 to BoK 10]	[P3] Sustain Phase [Bok 11 to BoK 15]

How to be Certified

To become an ORAE-certified professional, a candidate must complete four separate processes:

• Formal Education
  • Attend and complete the ORA-5000 Operational Resilience  Expert Auditor course.
• Examination
  • Attempt and pass the Qualifying ORAE examination
• Show proof of at least three years of verifiable OR-BCM-CM-IT DR and/or audit experience.
• Be able to describe at least eight of fifteen OR related Body of Knowledge (OR BoK)
• Make a payment of SGD 150 (non-refundable) application processing fee.

To become an ORCE-certified professional, a candidate must complete four separate processes:

Formal Education Attend and complete the ORA-5000 Operational Resilience Audit Expert Implementer course or Attend and complete the ORA-400 Operational Resilience Audit Manager (Module 3 and Module 4 of the ORA-5000) course.
Examination Attempt and pass the Qualifying ORAE examination.

• Show proof of at least three years of verifiable OR (BCM-CM-DR) and/or auditing experience.
• Make a payment of SGD 150 (non-refundable) application processing fee.
• Submit the ORCE application form to the certification team for review by the independent Certification Review Committee member.
• Complete review and approval by the Certification Review Committee member (which may take six to eight weeks)
• Invite to accept the ORCE award

Formal Education

• Sign up for the ORA-5000 course and complete the four modules (M1 to M4), or
• If you completed the ORA-300 Implementer course earlier, sign up for the ORA-400 course and complete the two modules (M3 - M4).
• Pay the Course Fees before starting the course.
• Be assigned login credentials to start the eLearning for Module 1 (for those taking ORA-5000) only
• Answer quizzes at the end of each sub-module of Module 1
• Continue to complete Modules 2, 3 and 4 within the schedule.
• Sit for the ORAE qualifying examination at the end of the course.

Examination

To sit for the Examination, a candidate must:

• Be competent in the Competency Level (CL):
  • Foundation(CL 1)
  • Intermediate (CL 2)
  • Advanced (CL 3)
    including the eight OR Body of Knowledge (OR BoK)
• Attempt the online practice quiz at least once

Certification

To be issued a certificate, a candidate must:

• Pass the ORAE qualifying examination with a required passing score of 75% out of 100- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
• Submit a non-refundable Application Processing Fee
• Submit the Certification Application Form to certification team
• Describe eight (out of the fifteen) OR Body of Knowledge (OR BoK) as experience
• Select two references for each OR BoK (references may be repeated for all eight of the  fifteen OR BoK

Fee Payment

	Application Processing Fee: SGD 150. (Not included in course fees and non-refundable even if the application is rejected)
	Annual Maintenance Fee: SGD 150 (Applicable after your first year of certification)

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Certification
Certification Type	Operational Resilience Audit Expert	Operational Resilience Audit Specialist	Operational Resilience Certified Planner
Certification Application Fee	SGD 150	SGD 75	SGD 50  Complimentary for year 1
OR Body of Knowledge	8 of 15 OR BoK	4 of 15 OR BoK	Not Required
Year of Experience	> Three years	> One year	Not Required
Attend OR Course
Course	OR Expert Auditor	OR Auditor	OR Certified Planner
Course Code	ORA-5000	ORA-300	OR-200

Find out more about Operational Resilience Audit ORA-5000 [ORA-5] & ORA-300 [ORA-3]

To learn more about the course and schedule, click the buttons below for the ORA-300 Operational Resilience Audit Specialist [ORA-3] course and the ORA-5000 Operational Resilience Audit Expert [ORA-5] course.

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